Clothes-drier.



PA-TENTED NOV. 10, 1903.

Inventor.

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F. SOHRADER. QLOTHES DRIER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 17, 1902.

H0 MODEL.

PATEN Patented November 10, 1903.

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GEORGE F. SCHRADER, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGEOR OF ONE- HALF TO ROCHESTER WRINGER COMPANY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 743,758, dated November 10, 1903.

Application iiled February 17. 1902. Serial 1%. 94,406. (lie model.)

To all whmn it may concern/.-

Be it known that LGEORGE F. Sensuous, of Roches'ter,in the county of Monroe and State of. New York, have invented certain new and 5 useful Improvements in Clothes or Towel Racks; and I do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference heing'had to the accompany-' ing drawings, forming a part of this specification, and to the numerals marked thereon.

My prescntinven tion relates to an improved rack or stand for supporting and holding articles, particularly for holding coats, hats, clothes, or.l1olding towels, napkins, or other- :5 articles while being dried; and it consists in certain improvements in construction and combination of parts whereby the rack may be held or supported in a room without reference to the location of the surrounding 2o walls, being thus adaptedparticularly for use in coat-rooms, laundries, kitchens, and similar places where a supporting-rack located upon the wall or requiring a broad base cannot readily be employed, all as will be here- 2 5 inafterfullydescribed,and the novel features pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation ofa rack orsupport constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a horizontal sectional view taken on the line a a of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a vertical sectional View on the line b b of Fig. 2.; Fig. l, a-detail sectional view of the upper end of the standard or support, and Fig. 5 a similar view of the lower end.

Similar reference-numerals in the several figures indicate similar parts.

The main standard or support of the rack consists of two bars or rods 1 and 2, held to slide longitudinally upon each other by suitable bands or brackets extending around them and preventing their lateral displacement. In the present instance these bands or brackets consist of frames 3, having the central aperture for the passage of the stan dard-sections, the log or ear 4 for securing them to one of the sections, the perforated flange 5, and the upwardlyextending outer 5o flange 6, said flanges being adapted for the reception of the supporting arms or bars 7,

having the heads upon their ends, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The sn pportin g rods or bars are capable of being folded down parallel to the standard, as shown at the lower end of Fig. 1, or of being drawn upward and supported as shown at the upper portion of Fig. l and also in Fig. 3, as usual in the ordinary form of towel-rack, the particular construction of the supporting-arms and their connec tion with the brackets or hands 3 not being essential to my invention. Located upon the section 1 of the standard is a rack 8,aud upon the other section, 2, is a pawl 9, preferably having the weighted end 10 to maintain engagement with the rack, permitting the relative "movement of the standard-sections'in one direciion, but preventing their movement in the other, the construction being such that the standard may be extended vertically to cause the upper and lower ends to firmly engage the ceiling and floor of the room or equivalent separated parts and retain them in engagement therewith. In order, however, to cause the yielding engagement between the ends of 7 5 the standard and the codperating parts and also to permit, if desired, a slight rotary adjustment, Iarrange upon the upper end of the standard-section 1 a shoe 11, preferably provided with an outer pad 12, of rubber or 30 leather, and also with the downwardly-extend ing shank 13, operating through suitable guide-eyes l4 and 15, said shoe being provided with a shoulder 16, between which and the lower guide 15 is arranged a spiral. spring 17, serving to permit the shoe to yield when pressed into engagement with the ceiling, the extreme outward movement being limited by a pin 18, as shown in Fig. 4. The lower end of the section 2 is provided with a bracket or plate 19, at the center of which is pivoted a shoe 20, thus permitting a slight rotary movement and also a slight oscillatory movement relative to the bracket, the lower surface of this shoe also being provided with apad 21, of rubber or leather.

From the above construction it will be seen that when the standard is extended itis engaged with the ceiling and floor of the room and maintained in engagement by means of the pawland rack, and then the supportingarms 7 may be moved radially to support ar- I GO ticles and, if desired, the support can be rotated upon the shoes at the ends.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination with two standardsoctions adapted to slide upon each other, a bracket encircling them secured to one of the sections and forming a guide for the other and supporting-arms 0n the bracket, ofa rack on one of the sections and an automaticallyoperating pawl on the other section cooperating with the rack.

2-. The combination with two standard-sections adapted to be adjusted longitudinally of each other, and a rack-and-pawl connection between them, of a shoe swiveled at the end of one section, guides on the other section and'e shoe having a shank mounted in guides and. revolublyand longitudinally movable therein, a spring arranged between said shoe and the section and laterally-extending supporting-arms on the standard.

3. Thecoinbination with estandard-section having guides at one end, esnoe having a shank operating in the guides and a spring; operating to movethe shank in the guides, of asecond standardsection movable longitudinally of the other one, means for holding the section in extended posittouand supporting arms on the standard.

4. The combination with twostandard-sech tions adapted to slide upon each other, e bracket encircling them secured to one of the sections and forming a guide for the other and supporting-arms on the bracket, ofe rack and-pawl connection between the sections, a pivoted shoe on one of the sections and a guide on the other, a. shoe having a shank supported in the guide and a spring operating to more the former in the latter.

GEORGE F. SCHRADER.

Witnesses:

RICHARD H. MoINTyRs, MARY I. SWEATT. 

